Dhimant Desai

Biography

Dhimant Desai is a solutions director for the registry and positive identification (RAPIDS) program of Global Public Sector.  He is responsible for the design, architecture, development, customization and integration of digitized drivers licenses, large scale national ID, digitized passports, biometrics, automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS), voter registration and electronic voting solutions. Dhimant brings to Unisys more than 20 years experience in the information technology industry in a variety of technical and management positions, and is based in Plymouth, Mich. 

Prior to that position, Dhimant was development manager charged with the design, development and implementation of digitized drivers license products.  Before that position, he was an imaging consultant responsible for systems architecture, design guidelines, hardware and software configurations, requirements analysis, business process re-engineering and transformation of customer requirements to detail design for Unisys InfoImage Folder RFPs.  Dhimant helped provide domain knowledge expertise to Unisys Public Sector groups and subsidiaries worldwide for pre-sales efforts in registry, identification and election practice.  His responsibilities here included customer presentations, subsidiary training, influencing customer specifications, RFI and RFP consultancy, RFI and RFP responses, vendor selections, configurations, and sizing and proposal costing.  He managed numerous imaging and large-scale identification projects for development and integration, including project and mobilization planning, customer liaison, requirements study, costing and pricing, implementation, system integration, testing, training and project coordination.

Areas of Expertise

• Registry and positive identification solutions

Education

• Bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from M.S. University, India
• Masters of science degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University
• Certified reliability engineer